Well, I would probably still be running Linux now even if I couldn't have run it on a VMWare virtual machine, but it would have delayed me big time.
Some people need even their home boxes up 24/7, so being able to play with a guest OS while not hurting uptime of things like file servers, DNS server, mail servers, etc, is a huge plus. I tried dual-boot Windows with Linux, but it was a huge pain as I had to kill apps that I really needed to keep running all the time just to play a game on Windows. I finally upgraded my workstation and used the leftover stuff to build a dedicated Windows box for games, and that works much better than dual-boot ( playing games in a guest Windows OS didn't pan out that well, and Wine(x) is ok for some games, horrible for others ).
To sum it up, virtualization is great for previewing an OS and may some development testing, dual-booting anything but a useless box is a pain, and running separate computers with the OS you need access too is the best way ( in my situation, anyway ).
I agree. You pointed out the fact that stealing ( theft, piracy, whatever you want to call it ) is different than copyright violation, and should be treated differently. The other good points you made were that no individual/business is guaranteed a sale ( without both sides agreeing to it, and even then the courts can declare the contract void ). Not today, not ever. A business can have a thousand sales 1 day and zero the next. It all depends on whether anyone is willing to pay for their service/product. It's called capitalism and the U.S. needs to be reminded of how the system should work, and not how corporations who want to be "guaranteed" want to make it artificially work. For example, RIAA saying that record companies aren't making as many sales as they think they think they should, so a "theft tax" should be levied on each CDR sale. To repeat, no company is "owed" sales and there is no such thing "theft of sales". Anyhow, kudos on the post/ Its 1:35am in the morning where I am at, and I've got some coding to do:).
He's not saying that. What he's saying is companies ( and many other things ) are bombarding his home with electromagnetic radiation. Should he not be allowed to set up receiver in his own home to collect and analyze these signals? Regardless of whether or not some of them contain encoded movies, etc. ?
I could see this in court - "Your honor, I was wondering if the signal was an alien race trying to contact Earth, and discovered it was just the HBO channel."
I think this is flamebait, but I will bite. AOL deserves applause for altering their customers computers without their consent or knowledge? Do you really believe this? I am doubtful.
If they took steps to educate their customers as to what the change was and they offered a simple tool ( or instructions ) to allow them to make the change, then I would be applauding them. But that is not the situation here.
I think what he is referring to is that, in the U.S., a contract that violates the applicable laws is null and void. So he is trying to prove the contract contradicts the law, and is therefore null and void ( in the U.S. ). Two or more parties can draw up and sign a contract that says anything they want, and sign it. But that doesn't make it binding from the legal point of view.
check the post directly above yours and you'll see that Mozilla's popup-blocking, among other things, is far superior to using MS IE 3rd party products that try to do the same thing. As far as Macromedia Flash goes, its usually a lame advertisement which means I don't want to see it, and also since it isn't an open Internet standard, I regard it with disgust. Everything should be free and open on the net so that everyone can access it without worrying about vendor lock-in. i.e. the macromedia flash player should compete on its own merits, not because it is the ONLY product that can play flash media files.
He is looking for something with persistent chat "rooms" where everyone can see what every else is saying, and they "rooms" exist on the server whether or no anyone is logged in. With IRC, you can still send private messages to people, but generally most of the chat goes on in the "room" created for a specific purpose. In addition, there are all kinds of server/client side filters and security restriction available validate someone is who they say they are and filter out bad language ( well, mos t of it ) . Anyhow, if you really wanted to know, why did you post as anonymous?
...I would marry it. It was my second Linux distro, and the one I decided to stick with. I just loaded Mandrake 9.1 4 weeks ago, so it may be a while before I try 9.2 out. However, the way my Redhat 9.0 box is acting, I may be loading Mandrake 9.2 sooner than I planned...
True. But the point you miss is whatever part of the OS is loaded into memory will still work even if the file it loaded from is gone. The virus could selectively erase files ( ok, this probably wounldn't be done in assembly ) that it knew would not disrupt system opereration until the next reboot.
Of course, it's not like script kiddies would take time to write a virus that was that good.:)
Exactly. Plus the fact that when you open source code under the GPL, it's open to everyone in the world and will have the same base cost ( disregarding download bandwidth or buying the CD's ) to everyone as well. This differs greatly from *just* the U.S.A opening up its labor market to everyone in the world and not requiring all the other countries do the same ( you remember the story about the U.S. citizen who was denied even the opportunity to apply for employment in India? ).
First, due to differing economies and standards of living, the U.S. solutions ( i.e. people ) to labor needs would likely be much more costly ( quality is another issue ) than that of many other countries it would be allowing to compete, so you are already on an uneven playing field. OSS can be kept under your complete control while outsourced labor makes that level of control impossible, and so on.
The creation of a global job market would require countries world-wide to change the way they work on socio-economic-political levels, including a complete rewrite of their constitutions ( for example, the U.S. constitution specifies government for the people by the people, so rules created outside of that scope are not valid, no matter how many treaties we make ).
I am sure others have things to add, but you are comparing apples to oranges, that is the gist of it.
Thanks for posting the article here. I know people feel the NYT free registration is a good trade for getting access to the news online, but I still have reservations about requiring people to sign to get access to online content.
However, sites still need to be paid for, so, is it fair to require anyone putting up web sites to be prepared to foot the bill? I have always footed the bill for running my own web sites ( no ads, no sign-ups required, etc. ), but then again my web site doesn't generate that much traffic.
Lets say Joe Web Admin sets up a small site running on his own computer over a residential Internet connection. The site gets very popular and soon he can't use his connection for personal use any more. As things progress, he web server is often slashdotted thanks to its popularity.
Joe Admin has a few options:
1) Shutdown his web site. Since it was so popular, this will tick visitors off, but it will let him use his connection again. 2) Throttle back the web traffic until its at a reasonable level. This will make his site slow and it will cause timeouts to the end users. 3) Order a faster connection. Depending on his finances, it may be an good option. But then again, T1+ may not be available to affordable. 4) Web hosting - This will save his home connection, but it may backfire due to bills for excess traffic that hosting company will probably charge him. Also his will be very limited in the area of file storage. Plus he has to agree to all kinds of non-technical limits ( you can't store mp3's, pictures, etc. ) under the hosting contract.
What would Slashdotter's recommend as a way to provide a no-strings-attached web site that can handle it's own popularity?
Ok. This is off-topic, but its something that comes to mind everytime I see an NYT story posted on/.
If you've been watching the headlines, you would know the RIAA has sent their threatening letters to people who were not sharing mp3's, so it looks like they already starting using telemarketers tactics.
This is just their final gasp for air before they go under for good. And I for one will not miss them.
There is that ( but when she takes her computer offline, the IP address is open for re-use. A more difficult problem with the NAT idea is that you have to map the desired Kazaa listening port from the NAT device to the internal system that is running Kazaa. So he would need to both get on the users network AND take control of the NAT device such that the port gets mapped to his computer. The IP address hacking sounds a lot more plausible.
Ya true. I am copyrighting, trademarking, and doing everything I can to control the market on "Intel Outside" computer case logos. If this China Dragon chip thingy takes off, I am going to be swimming in $$$'s!
Heh, yeah, I knew the answer before I asked. I was really bullish on Java until I hit that snag. After searching the java developer boards at sun.com and posting the question after I did not find an answer that did not include my having to use JNI and learn another language just for that small part of my application, I decided Java did not mean my needs.
Being a hobby programmer, I don't have time to learn multiple languages ( well, I am acquainted with C/C++/Java, but I don't count that as "know" ). I write my applications carefully, with the assumption that the user is clueless, so in the case of the queued file transfer feature of my application, I needed to ensure the target hard drive had enough room for the queued files, and would give the user the option to override my "not enough room on target" error and try and transfer the files anyway. This would handle the case where the user wanted to start the transfer the files right away, and knew he would have cleared enough space for them before the drive filled up.
You are correct in that I could just wait for a write to fail and then handle the error from there, but I like I said, I tried to protect users from themselves, and make them have to force my application to do something that appears stupid.
oh, giving Java access to the partition information was reportedly on the "wish list" for the next release of Java ( the language spec or JRE, I don't know which ), but that doesn't help me now. I figure if I am going to have to learn C/C++ just for one part of my application, I might as well use it for the entire application with reduces the number of languages I have to learn to get the job done. That said, I will have to adapt
any non ANSI code for each target platform, but I would rather do that than learn multiple languages.
Am making things more difficult than I have to? I will find out the answer to that question after I finally get my application done.:-)
Cool. Show me ( in Java, no JNI allowed ), how to retrieve the free space on a hard drive partition. Let's say the Java app is running under Windows 2000, just to make it more specific.
Thank you for clarifying that. This brings up a couple of pet peeves I have: 1) Calling a Windows-only virus or security flaw a "PC" or "Computer" problem as opposed to a "Windows OS" problem. 2) Calling a virus that a bunch of dumb users manually spread to other systems a "worm" as opposed to "a virus spread by sheer stupidity"
LOL. Pretty hilarious. Though I have only been running Linux on 4 systems for about 12 months ( they are all on 24/7 ), I still think the fact that I have had zero viruses since I started is a good sign. Then again, I have protected my one Windows box enough that it hasn't gotten any viruses either. However, I only use that system for games and development, not email or surfing, so maybe that helps it out.
Try this case out for size -> http://www.procooling.com/reviews/html/antec_sonat a_case_review.php . It's gotten rave reviews for being super quiet and cool. I just assembled mine earlier this evening, and you can barely tell it is on unless you look at it closely. The 120mm fans in front and in back are dead quiet, plus the power supply is designed to be quiet, also. I even purchased a Zalman 6000CU CPU fan with speed control to keep the noise down. Oh, the case also has rubber grommets on the hard drive mount points to deaden any noise the HD's may make. And the fans are mounted with rubber-like screws to deaden any noise that may be caused by the fan vibrating against the case.
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Well, I would probably still be running Linux now even if I couldn't have run it on a VMWare virtual machine, but it would have delayed me big time.
Some people need even their home boxes up 24/7, so being able to play with a guest OS while not hurting uptime of things like file servers, DNS server, mail servers, etc, is a huge plus. I tried dual-boot Windows with Linux, but it was a huge pain as I had to kill apps that I really needed to keep running all the time just to play a game on Windows. I finally upgraded my workstation and used the leftover stuff to build a dedicated Windows box for games, and that works much better than dual-boot ( playing games in a guest Windows OS didn't pan out that well, and Wine(x) is ok for some games, horrible for others ).
To sum it up, virtualization is great for previewing an OS and may some development testing, dual-booting anything but a useless box is a pain, and running separate computers with the OS you need access too is the best way ( in my situation, anyway ).
I told you so.
I agree. You pointed out the fact that stealing ( theft, piracy, whatever you want to call it ) is different than copyright violation, and should be treated differently. The other good points you made were that no individual/business is guaranteed a sale ( without both sides agreeing to it, and even then the courts can declare the contract void ). Not today, not ever. A business can have a thousand sales 1 day and zero the next. It all depends on whether anyone is willing to pay for their service/product. :).
It's called capitalism and the U.S. needs to be reminded of how the system should work, and not how corporations who want to be "guaranteed" want to make it artificially work. For example, RIAA saying that record companies aren't making as many sales as they think they think they should, so a "theft tax" should be levied on each CDR sale. To repeat, no company is "owed" sales and there is no such thing "theft of sales".
Anyhow, kudos on the post/ Its 1:35am in the morning where I am at, and I've got some coding to do
He's not saying that. What he's saying is companies ( and many other things ) are bombarding his home with electromagnetic radiation. Should he not be allowed to set up receiver in his own home to collect and analyze these signals? Regardless of whether or not some of them contain encoded movies, etc. ?
I could see this in court -
"Your honor, I was wondering if the signal was an alien race trying to contact Earth, and discovered it was just the HBO channel."
Is there a .avi or mpeg version of it? Some of us don't use Windows...
I think this is flamebait, but I will bite. AOL deserves applause for altering their customers computers without their consent or knowledge? Do you really believe this? I am doubtful.
If they took steps to educate their customers as to what the change was and they offered a simple tool ( or instructions ) to allow them to make the change, then I would be applauding them. But that is not the situation here.
I think what he is referring to is that, in the U.S., a contract that violates the applicable laws is null and void. So he is trying to prove the contract contradicts the law, and is therefore null and void ( in the U.S. ). Two or more parties can draw up and sign a contract that says anything they want, and sign it. But that doesn't make it binding from the legal point of view.
check the post directly above yours and you'll see that Mozilla's popup-blocking, among other things, is far superior to using MS IE 3rd party products that try to do the same thing. As far as Macromedia Flash goes, its usually a lame advertisement which means I don't want to see it, and also since it isn't an open Internet standard, I regard it with disgust. Everything should be free and open on the net so that everyone can access it without worrying about vendor lock-in. i.e. the macromedia flash player should compete on its own merits, not because it is the ONLY product that can play flash media files.
The Register posts a story reporting that Slashdot has posted a story about The Register posting a story...
He is looking for something with persistent chat "rooms" where everyone can see what every else is saying, and they "rooms" exist on the server whether or no anyone is logged in. With IRC, you can still send private messages to people, but generally most of the chat goes on in the "room" created for a specific purpose. In addition, there are all kinds of server/client side filters and security restriction available validate someone is who they say they are and filter out bad language ( well, mos t of it ) . Anyhow, if you really wanted to know, why did you post as anonymous?
...I would marry it. It was my second Linux distro, and the one I decided to stick with. I just loaded Mandrake 9.1 4 weeks ago, so it may be a while before I try 9.2 out. However, the way my Redhat 9.0
box is acting, I may be loading Mandrake 9.2 sooner than I planned...
True. But the point you miss is whatever part of the OS is loaded into memory will still work even if the file it loaded from is gone. The virus could selectively erase files ( ok, this probably wounldn't be done in assembly ) that it knew would not disrupt system opereration until the next reboot.
:)
Of course, it's not like script kiddies would take time to write a virus that was that good.
Exactly. Plus the fact that when you open source code under the GPL, it's open to everyone in the world and will have the same base cost ( disregarding download bandwidth or buying the CD's ) to everyone as well. This differs greatly from *just* the U.S.A opening up its labor market to everyone in the world and not requiring all the other countries do the same ( you remember the story about the U.S. citizen who was denied even the opportunity to apply for employment in India? ).
First, due to differing economies and standards of living, the U.S. solutions ( i.e. people ) to labor needs would likely be much more costly ( quality is another issue ) than that of many other countries it would be allowing to compete, so you are already on an uneven playing field. OSS can be
kept under your complete control while outsourced labor makes that level of control impossible, and so on.
The creation of a global job market would require countries world-wide to change the way they work on socio-economic-political levels, including a complete rewrite of their constitutions ( for example, the U.S. constitution specifies government for the people by the people, so rules created outside of that scope are not valid, no matter how many treaties we make ).
I am sure others have things to add, but you are comparing apples to oranges, that is the gist of it.
Thanks for posting the article here. I know people feel the NYT free registration is a good trade for getting access to the news online, but I still have reservations about requiring people to sign to get access to online content.
/.
However, sites still need to be paid for, so, is it fair to require anyone putting up web sites to be prepared to foot the bill? I have always footed the bill for running my own web sites ( no ads, no sign-ups required, etc. ), but then again my web site doesn't generate that much traffic.
Lets say Joe Web Admin sets up a small site running on his own computer over a residential Internet connection. The site gets very popular and soon he can't use his connection for personal use any more. As things progress, he web server is
often slashdotted thanks to its popularity.
Joe Admin has a few options:
1) Shutdown his web site. Since it was so popular, this will tick visitors off, but it will let him use his connection again.
2) Throttle back the web traffic until its at a reasonable level. This will make his site slow and
it will cause timeouts to the end users.
3) Order a faster connection. Depending on his finances, it may be an good option. But then again, T1+ may not be available to affordable.
4) Web hosting - This will save his home connection, but it may backfire due to bills for excess traffic that hosting company will probably charge him. Also his will be very limited in the area of file storage. Plus he has to agree to all kinds of non-technical limits ( you can't store mp3's, pictures, etc. ) under the hosting contract.
What would Slashdotter's recommend as a way to provide a no-strings-attached web site that can handle it's own popularity?
Ok. This is off-topic, but its something that comes to mind everytime I see an NYT story posted on
If you've been watching the headlines, you would know the RIAA has sent their threatening letters to people who were not sharing mp3's, so it looks like they already starting using telemarketers tactics.
This is just their final gasp for air before they go under for good. And I for one will not miss them.
How new? My Abit NF7-S board I purchased last week has 2Serial + 1Parallel and PS/2 Keyb/Mouse Ports. Looks like they are still being sold.
There is that ( but when she takes her computer offline, the IP address is open for re-use. A more difficult problem with the NAT idea is that you have to map the desired Kazaa listening port from the NAT device to the internal system that is running Kazaa. So he would need to both get on the users network AND take control of the NAT device such that the port gets mapped to his computer. The IP address hacking sounds a lot more plausible.
Ya true. I am copyrighting, trademarking, and doing everything I can to control the market on "Intel Outside" computer case logos. If this China Dragon chip thingy takes off, I am going to be swimming in $$$'s!
Heh, yeah, I knew the answer before I asked. I was really bullish on Java until I hit that snag. After searching the java developer boards at sun.com and posting the question after I did not find an answer that did not include my having to use JNI and learn another language just for that small part of my application, I decided Java did not mean my needs.
:-)
Being a hobby programmer, I don't have time to learn
multiple languages ( well, I am acquainted with C/C++/Java, but I don't count that as "know" ). I write my applications carefully, with the assumption that the user is clueless, so in the case of the queued file transfer feature of my application, I needed to ensure the target hard drive had enough room for the queued files, and would give the user the option to override my "not enough room on target" error and try and transfer the files anyway. This would handle the case where the user wanted to start the transfer the files right away, and knew he would have cleared enough space for them before the drive filled up.
You are correct in that I could just wait for a write to fail and then handle the error from there, but I like I said, I tried to protect users
from themselves, and make them have to force my application to do something that appears stupid.
oh, giving Java access to the partition information was reportedly on the "wish list" for the next release of Java ( the language spec or JRE, I don't know which ), but that doesn't help me now. I figure if I am going to have to learn C/C++ just for one part of my application, I might as well use it for the entire application with reduces the number of languages I have to learn to get the job done. That said, I will have to adapt
any non ANSI code for each target platform, but I would rather do that than learn multiple languages.
Am making things more difficult than I have to? I will find out the answer to that question after I finally get my application done.
Cool. Show me ( in Java, no JNI allowed ), how to retrieve the free space on a hard drive partition. Let's say the Java app is running under Windows 2000, just to make it more specific.
Wouldn't outlawing MS Windows be the simplest solution? It definitely would have saved me a ton of
virus-cleanup work this year!
Thank you for clarifying that. This brings up a couple of pet peeves I have:
1) Calling a Windows-only virus or security flaw a "PC" or "Computer" problem as opposed to a "Windows OS" problem.
2) Calling a virus that a bunch of dumb users manually spread to other systems a "worm" as opposed to "a virus spread by sheer stupidity"
LOL. Pretty hilarious. Though I have only been running Linux on 4 systems for about 12 months ( they are all on 24/7 ), I still think the fact that I have had zero viruses since I started is a good sign. Then again, I have protected my one Windows box enough that it hasn't gotten any viruses either. However, I only use that system for games and development, not email or surfing, so maybe that helps it out.
Peace,
Try this case out for size -> http://www.procooling.com/reviews/html/antec_sonat a_case_review.php . It's gotten rave reviews for being super quiet and cool. I just assembled mine earlier this evening, and you can barely tell it is on unless you look at it closely. The 120mm fans in front and in back are dead quiet, plus the power supply is designed to be quiet, also. I even purchased a Zalman 6000CU CPU fan with speed control to keep the noise down.
Oh, the case also has rubber
grommets on the hard drive mount points to deaden any noise the HD's may make. And the fans are mounted with rubber-like screws to deaden any noise that may be caused by the fan vibrating against the case.